In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and ...

If artificial consciousness never emerges, safeguards will look cautious but harmless. If it does, safeguards may be the ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Michael Pollan's view of consciousness hygiene is criticized for reinforcing alienation and failing to address the underlying ...

It sounds like an oxymoron, but we could find the origin of consciousness in our brains using the brains of those who are unconscious.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of eight books, most recently “Livewired.” ...

A growing body of research is converging on specific brain regions and networks that appear to generate conscious experience, from dreaming to waking awareness. Multiple independent lines of evidence ...

It's time to stop bickering, accept what science tells us, acknowledge the widespread occurrence of intentional behavioral flexibility, and pay attention to why it has evolved.

In grammar, we learn about the past, present, and future tenses from an early age. This shapes our understanding of time as a one-way arrow. Eggs break, but don’t un-break; we grow older, but never ...

It used to be thought that without the cerebral cortex, consciousness could not exist. New research, however, has found that humans and animals missing part or all of their cortices are still capable ...